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To many unschooled onlookers, Al Nevins wasn’t a lot more compared to the guitarist, manufacturer/arranger, and co-founder of the pop trio called the Three Suns. Actually, he was a significant behind-the-scenes shape in the advancement of 1950s pop vocal music into early-’60s pop/rock and roll, as co-founder of a significant …

The postwar-era pop trio the Three Suns comprised vocalist/organist Artie Dunn, guitarist Al Nevins and accordionist Morty Nevins. Although created in 1939, the group didn’t achieve widespread achievement until their 1944 Best 20 rendition of “Twilight Period,” co-written from the trio with Buck Ram memory, sold more than a million …